It has them. Every weekend.

yup

That's alright, gave me time to enjoy some beer.

by some, I mean a lot :p

yep same here

I had to go to a baptism. ANd this thread was a dry joke on"problems with the website" which, of course, we all know there were. A poor attempt at humer.

Well it doesn't really matter to me, because I've got problems with my internet. It will work for about three minutes, but at one fifth the speed it is supposed to. Then it will disconnect for usually about two minutes and come back on. The weird thing is if I manually disconnect the house network from the pppoe server and then reconnect, I have my internet back immediately. That takes about 20sec. If I disconnect any computer in the house from the network and reconnect it also has internet immediately (15sec), but these problems are still occuring when I plug the modem straight into my computer and not into the network.

Is it a cable modem? it might be going bad

I had to go to a baptism.



Congrats to whomever was baptised :D

Is it a cable modem? it might be going badPPPOE is most likely DSL.

Congrats to whomever was baptised :D

It was a friends son. Child number 6!

PPPOE is most likely DSL.

Correct, it is DSL. It's been alive a couple years, so it might be going bad, but right now it doesn't mean that much to me. I'll have gigabit ethernet in less than a month :D. The problem started during a thunderstorm, and all my stuff is surge protected, so I'm thinking maybe my ISP lost some servers, so that they didn't have enough room for all their users, and that would explain why the speeds are slower as well. One of my friends with DSL got the same problem around the same time, and one with DSL lite didn't.

Correct, it is DSL. It's been alive a couple years, so it might be going bad, but right now it doesn't mean that much to me. I'll have gigabit ethernet in less than a month :D. The problem started during a thunderstorm, and all my stuff is surge protected, so I'm thinking maybe my ISP lost some servers, so that they didn't have enough room for all their users, and that would explain why the speeds are slower as well. One of my friends with DSL got the same problem around the same time, and one with DSL lite didn't.
Gigabit ethernet won't speed up your Internet connection. It will just prevent a bottleneck once the data is past the firewall/router. Unfortunately you still have a bottleneck coming in to the firewall/router from the web and your Internet connection (even at school) is not anywhere near a gigabit. ;)

I had someone try to baptize me at age 19. I was dating this girl and her parents thought I was a sinner because I wasn't. It was really creepy. Her mom always threw "holy water" on me when I came in the house. Just a flick of the fingers amount, but needless to say, I was a little spooked. Especially since there kids were such sinners. I mean, their daughter, my gf, well, she was experienced.

Gigabit ethernet won't speed up your Internet connection. It will just prevent a bottleneck once the data is past the firewall/router. Unfortunately you still have a bottleneck coming in to the firewall/router from the web and your Internet connection (even at school) is not anywhere near a gigabit. ;)

I think my limiting speed is coming from my internet, not the web. I use applications where people around me have better ping, and download at higher rates. I know that my speeds won't be a gig, but it will still be faster than what I have now :).